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[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Mar 26, Alan McKinnon did say:

> I feel the same way and very seldom using Synaptic myself. But the 
> original poster is a recent refugee from Windowsland and odds are 
> he'll be able to wrap his brains around Synaptic, but be totally 
> stumped on the cli. So I offered him the route most likely to succeed 
> for him.

OK... But I was once a refugee from a windows that forced my dos using
mind to go point and click when my brain does NOT "click" well...

I was escaping from windows because I was looking for something I could
trust to let me use the keyboard for my primary input device. {and let me
leave my trackball still pointing at the pixel that will be part of a
particular piece of information when I restore it's application...}  But
since I had just come from windows, all anybody wanted tell me about were
the gui apps that kept making me move my rodent and click a lot... <sigh>

So I suppose my reply was really a knee jerk reaction to this expression:

> > > ... 'apt' can be tricky, as it's a command line tool.
> > > Instead you should be using Synaptic ...

Had you said something more like:

... 'apt' can be tricky, if you don't like command line tools.
Instead you could be using Synaptic ...

I probably wouldn't have jumped in at all... ;)

 
> As much as I detest GUI tools for most admin purposes (vi is the best 
> configurator ever), I have to admit that command line is a mountain 
> most newbies are not willing to climb.

Agreed... Yet I know that for myself I don't prefer keyboard control
only for the CLI interface, But rather I often need the kind of
interactive "textual" interface to be had in applications such as pine,
mc, and with a good ~/.vimrc, my favorite editor which I think really is
an improvement on vi.

(I think that as long as the configuration file is well enough
commented, including plenty of commented out examples, then vi, vim,
pico {and <ulp> I suppose even <eek> emacs <shudder> < ;-) >} would all
make better configurators than any of the "check box" and "button"
intensive, gui tools that I've seen so far.)

SeeYa

	Joe

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